![]() Thanks to Ed Summers for pointing out via Mastodon that I’d forgotten to add the RSS feed URL to the heads of my pages. It will be a cherished part of Web+ and beyond. RSS was an essential part of Web 1.0 before surveillance capitalism (Web 2.0) took over. No app is born perfect.)Īs we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS. (And I hope NewsBar will take note and improve its rendering in its next update. ![]() In my limited testing, the Leaf RSS reader for macOS displayed my full-fat RSS perfectly while the NewsBar app didn’t. Yes, your content may not display the same in certain RSS readers that are not standards-compliant but that’s their problem, not yours. The more the better! Heck, on the peer-web version of this site, the goal is to ideally have the content duplicated as many times as there are people consuming it. The more ways people have of consuming your content, the more resilient that content becomes and the more freedom people have.ĭuplicate content? Yes, please. The Newsbar RSS Reader doesn’t display images or styles correctly in content previews. I was too obsessed with maintaining a formalistic stranglehold over my designs and thus failed to correctly weigh the decision using ethical design criteria. Six years ago, I was arguing the opposite, stating that “full fat RSS is duplicate content by another name”. I modified my Hugo configuration and the default RSS template using these instructions by Brian Wisti to include the full content feed and I recommend that you do the same. When generating an RSS feed for your site, you have the option to include only summaries of your posts or the full content. The Leaf RSS reader displays full HTML content perfectly. It’s not complicated: just a link in the head of your page 1 and a link in the body with an RSS icon and Bob’s your decentralised Uncle.Ĭheck out The Noun Project for a set of RSS icons you can use under Creative Commons licenses. You can start making RSS more visible again today by finding the URL for your own RSS feed and exposing it visibly on your site. It’s time to push back against this and demand first-class support for RSS as part of the move to re-decentralise the Web.īut you don’t have to wait for browser vendors (some of which – like Google – are surveillance capitalists themselves, and others, like Mozilla, get all their money from surveillance capitalists). ![]() Currently, none of the major browsers appears to do so. There was also once a push for browsers to auto-detect and expose RSS feeds. This was before they were mercilessly devoured by the tracking devices … ahem … “social sharing buttons” of people farmers like Google and Facebook. Time was, you couldn’t browse the web without seeing RSS icons of all persuasions gracing the façades of Web 1.0’s finest. The Noun Project has a great selection of RSS icons you can use. Other generators might put it at /rss, /feed, /feed.xml, etc. If you use Hugo to generate your site, for example (like I do), your RSS feed is at /index.xml. It is also almost universally implemented.Ĭhances are, if you have a web site, you already have an RSS feed whether you know it or not. ![]() Rediscovering RSS Fri, 11:33:13 +0100 (Aral Balkan) (The content of this post goes here.) Aral Balkan Recent content on Aral Balkan Fri, 11:33:13 +0100
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